A newborn girl was mauled to death in Michigan after she was left alone with a stray dog her family had only recently taken in, according to cops and her heartbroken grandmother.
The unidentified 5-day-old girl suffered multiple puncture wounds when the mixed-breed dog attacked her in the family’s Novi home, just outside Detroit, on Tuesday morning, cops said.
“That baby should never have been left alone,” Linda French told WXYZ — saying she never even got to meet her new granddaughter.
“I’m just … God, I’m devastated.”
French, whose stepson is the baby’s father, said the newborn was sleeping in a bassinet-type bed at the time of the attack.
The dog is believed to have knocked the bed over and quickly attacked before the baby’s parents could intervene.
French claimed the family had only taken in the dog just months earlier — and it previously “lunged” at her.
“They don’t know that dog. They don’t know where he came from,” she insisted, squarely blaming the parents for putting their kids at risk.
“I’m sorry to say that about my stepson, but those kids don’t belong there,” she said, without revealing how many other children were in the house. “It kills me.”
Authorities have released any details on what breed of dog was involved, but said it was euthanized after the horrific attack, which is still being investigated by police.
It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone would face charges.
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